Stephen Colbert weighed in on the Bing-is-copying-Google-search-results debate Wednesday night, admitting that Microsoft’s search engine is one of the show’s biggest sponsors but also telling Bing, “hiybbprqag.”
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eBay has hired Scott Prevost, a principal development manager for Bing, away from Microsoft to bolster its search and “machine learning” initiatives, All Things Digital reported today. Prevost will start immediately as eBay’s vice president of product management on search, an eBay spokesperson confirmed for seattlepi.com. eBay also hired a search expert away from Facebook as part of its search push. Microsoft did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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Microsoft’s Bing search engine is now powering Yahoo search in three more countries: Mexico, Australia and Brazil. In a blog post, Yahoo said the expansion had been “just completed” on Jan. 13. Microsoft and Yahoo flipped the switch Aug. 24 in the U.S. and Canada, marking the official beginning of Yahoo search results being “powered by Bing.” Yahoo’s Kartik Ramakrishnan, vice president of the search transition, said the companies will continue to expand into more countries. (Except in Japan, where …
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